Panops schlingeri
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Ordo: Diptera
Familia: Acroceridae
Genus: Panops
Name
Panops schlingeri Winterton, 2012 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype female, AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: 9 km NE of Mudginbarry H.S. (on scarp), 10.vi.1973, D. H. Colless [-12.310, 132.579] (ANIC).
Paratype
AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: female, 8 km SSW of Oenpelli Mission 7.vi.1973, J. Cardale [-12.381, 133.024] (ANIC).
Diagnosis
Eye apilose; proboscis shorter than head height; body metallic green-blue iridescence; antennae orange; parafacial without marginal pile; postpronotal lobe dark yellow; legs dark yellow, femora brown-black with yellow apices.
Description
Body length: 9.5–11.0 mm (female only). Head with eye apilose; ocellar tubercle relatively flat; medial ocellus present; occiput metallic green-blue, occipital pile white, dense; postocular ridge and gena overlain with grey pubescence; clypeus shorter than oral cavity, brown-black; palpus black; margin of oral cavity (parafacial) glabrous; proboscis not extending beyond oral cavity; flagellum orange; scape and pedicel dark red-yellow. Thorax with postpronotal lobe yellow; scutum metallic green to blue iridescent; scutal vestiture dense white pile; scutellum metallic blue-green; pleuron metallic green to blue iridescent; coxae brown-black with metallic blue iridescence; femora brown-black, apices dark yellow; tibiae dark yellow; tarsi dark yellow; lower calypter white, with dark yellow margin; wing hyaline, venation dark; vein R4 without spur vein. Abdomen shape rounded globose, much larger than thorax, dark with metallic green to blue iridescence, vestiture as dense short pile, longer laterally.
Etymology
I am honoured to name this species after the world-renowned Acroceridae taxonomist Dr. Evert Irving Schlinger.
Comments
Panops schlingeri sp. n. is known only from two female specimens collected in the Northern Territory. This species is differentiated easily by the green-blue iridescence on the body and dark yellow postpronotal lobes.
Original Description
- Winterton, S; 2012: Review of Australasian spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a revision of Panops Lamarck ZooKeys, 172: 7-75. doi
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